The View from Rainshadow Bay is book one in the Lavender Tides series and kicks off with mystery and suspense. Shauna McDade is a single mom working to care for her five-year-old son, Alex. Zach Bannister has been a close friend, but it's his fault that Shauna's husband is dead, or is it? The story weaves together age-old secrets and as Shauna and Zach uncover the things hidden, they place themselves in deeper and deeper danger. Written in true Colleen Coble fashion, the setting is as much a part of the story as the characters. The View from Rainshadow Bay takes the reader to beautiful Lavender Tides in the State of Washington.

I truly felt for Shauna and the secrets she uncovers that destroy what she thought was real. Zach is a wonderful hero who bears her anger and hate while keeping his own heart from becoming calloused. The ending was intense and kept me turning pages.

The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble is a clever, suspenseful and tenses story which sets up a fantastic new series. Lavender Tides is mysterious, dark and alluring but still retains the small town charm that we know and love.

Shauna lost her husband in a freak climbing accident and she blames his best friend Zach for letting it happened. While her son still idolises him, shes barely civil if she talks to him at all.

When her business partner and friend is brutally murdered and previously through unsuspicious deaths start looking decidedly sus - Shauna may need to rely on Zach a lot more than she had previously though she ever would.

Rainshadow Bay sets up a new series of books that have the making of another Colleen Coble classic series - just the perfect mixture of suspense and romance to keep both heart rate and emotions well in check.

Ahhh, I loved this book. I did what I usually do and read book 2 in the series first, but only because I didn't know there was a book 1! So naturally I had to read this one.

IT IS SO GOOD. :) Loved it! I even knew certain characters showed up in the next book but was kept guessing throughout. Really didn't see all the twists and turns coming or how it was all going to resolve.

Be warned, it will keep you up until you're done (or at a semi-good stopping point, which, frankly, is going to be the end of the book). :) Another winner from Coble.